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A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
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Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.
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The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.
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The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.
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A Judge may be a farmer but he is not to geld his own pigs.
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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.
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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
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Life is in short cycles or periods we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate he will not lift his hand to save his life he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.
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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
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It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.
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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.
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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.
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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.
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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.
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